Magnolia Market silo Waco
— two cotton silos, given a second life.
Not only on a wall.
Magnolia Market silo Waco, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
Each tile ships in a kraft box, tied with cream ribbon, with a handwritten note from the studio if you'd like to add one.
Three or five different vistas, hung together — a chapter of places you've been, or want to go.
“Two corrugated cotton-oil silos rise about a hundred feet over downtown Waco, painted the soft white that Chip and Joanna Gaines made famous from a Magnolia paint chip. The silos were built in the 1950s for the Brazos Valley Cotton Oil Mill and sat empty for decades before the Gaineses bought the block in 2014 and opened Magnolia Market the following fall. The lawn between the silos fills on weekends with families, food trucks, and people taking the same photograph their cousin took last spring. — from the studio
The place, in three passes.
Magnolia Market at the Silos occupies a two-block site at 601 Webster Avenue in downtown Waco, two blocks south of the Brazos River and a short walk from Baylor University. The two industrial silos at the center of the property were built in the 1950s for the Brazos Valley Cotton Oil Mill and stand roughly 120 feet tall. Chip and Joanna Gaines purchased the property in 2014 and opened the market in October 2015, two years into the run of their HGTV series Fixer Upper. The campus now includes the market, bakery, gardens, and a lawn.
The silos have become Waco's most-visited destination, drawing more than thirty thousand visitors a week at peak and reshaping downtown around the block. The Magnolia Press coffee shop opened across the street in 2019, and Magnolia Table — Joanna Gaines's restaurant in the old Elite Café building — opened in 2018 about two miles south on Valley Mills Drive. The annual Silobration event each fall brings live music to the lawn and shorter lines than the Saturday-morning peak. Admission to the grounds is free year-round.
The grounds open Monday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and are closed Sundays. The market sells home goods, the bakery sells the cupcakes Joanna's recipes are built around, and the lawn hosts a rotating set of food trucks beside the seed-to-table garden. Parking is on the gravel lots flanking the property; weekend mornings before 10 a.m. and weekday afternoons are the calmest windows. The closest hotels are the Hotel Indigo and the Hilton Waco, both walkable along Webster Avenue from the silos.
